There is even a precedent of blind players being very successful at fighting games, from TJ the Blind Gamer creating video content to a blind teen named Brice Mellen beating Mortal Kombat creator Ed Boon at his own game in 2005. From the unique noise each move makes to the various grunts fighters emit that give away their position, every sound helps visually impaired players build a mental picture of what's going on. The precise sound design of fighting games makes them easily accessible to partially sighted players. Olabode points out that most visually impaired streamers and the majority of visually impaired gamers he knows play fighting games because they are most accessible.
"I want to show people that, 'Hey, I'm blind or visually impaired, but I can do this - blind people can do this!' " "I don't think there are any blind streamers that stream Pokémon," Olabode explains. The mythos and mystery was gone, but the insatiable appetite to catch 'em all - or watch someone else try to - had grown exponentially. By 2015, content creation had become a part of how we consume gaming, and thanks to that - and the larger internet as a whole - players knew for sure that shiny Pokémon existed. It wasn't until years later that Olabode decided to actively search for shiny Pokémon and to stream his hunts on Twitch, only knowing if he had encountered a shiny by the brief sparkling sound it emits when it appears. These are the sparkles Olabode heard, and although he didn't know it at the time, lit the fuse on his love of shiny Pokémon. Shiny Pokémon have a 1/8192 chance of appearing in Pokémon Crystal, and sparkle when they appear in battle. I went back later to try to find it and I'm just like, 'I think that was rare because I don't see it anymore.' " I didn't know it was a shiny Graveller, I heard the sparkling sound before it and I think I ran from it. "I'd been playing it one day, and I went into Mt Mortar and I randomly came across a shiny Graveller. "But I still remember the first official shiny I got on my friend's Crystal version. "I've played Pokemon since Red and Blue," he tells Eurogamer. That's what Tony is listening for, and that's how he knows if he's found a shiny Pokémon or not. However, most players won't notice that these sparkles also let out a unique noise. When a shiny Pokémon appears, it sparkles and glows. Tony is partially sighted, so while he can see some shapes, he struggles to read the game's text and make out colours - especially when a shiny Pokémon doesn't look that different from its regular counterpart. It's a test of patience for any player, but for Tony, it's also a test of skill. He mostly hunts legendary Pokémon, which involves resetting the game after encountering the Pokémon for hours on end, because each time there is a 1/4000 chance for it to be shiny.
Tony Olabode, better known on Twitch and YouTube as Saiyan4414, is one such streamer.
In pre-internet times, they were nothing more than a playground myth, but nowadays self-confessed "shiny hunters" spend hundreds of hours hatching eggs to the extent they even have representation in the anime.Īs with all things, many dedicated players livestream their hunts to legions of avid fans. Shiny Pokémon are an incredibly rare phenomenon, identical to their regular counterparts in all but colour. Shiny hunting is a task only the most dedicated Pokémon players dare undertake.
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